Is Ubuntu Moving towards Rolling Release Model?

Developers from
Canonical explained last week that they intended to rebase the Ubuntu
Next flavor (featuring Mir and Unity8) on Snappy, which means that they
were also considering moving to a rolling release model, even if it was
just for this branch.

Will Cooke from Canonical said last week
that the current .deb based Desktop Next image would be going away and
would be replaced with the new Snappy version. This is all well and
good, but it does raise a few questions. For example, what will happen
with the regular Ubuntu desktop image, which is still using .deb
packages? Ubuntu devs went to Reddit and explained a lot of this stuff,
but the bottom line is that some things will be decided at the Ubuntu
Online Summit that starts tomorrow, May 5.Continue Reading